Tom Florio is the former publisher of Vogue. He was the man responsible for weighing down the Anna Wintour-edited fashion tome with 112 pounds of ads every September. These days, he's been snatched up by the company Advanstar to head their fashion group.

A first generation Italian-American raised on Long Island, Florio attended NYU and earned his first job in the publishing industry with a position at Esquire. Tom left for New York several years later before joining his brother at Condé Nast: Starting off at Condé Nast Traveler, he eventually became publisher of the travel mag, leaving in 1994 to take over for his brother at The New Yorker during Tina Brown's reign as editor-in-chief. Tom had difficulty lifting the vaunted literary mag out of the red and the title continued to lose money during his four-year stay. In 1998, Si Newhouse moved Florio to GQ, and four years later, he was named publisher of Vogue where he stayed for nearly a decade. In 2010, Florio decided to change course, and left Condé Nast after twenty five years at the company. He decamped to IMG as a senior advisor and subsequently joined the business-to-business media company Advanstar.

Florio has been married to Lori Zelikow since 1987; the two met when they worked in the ad sales department at New York. [Image via Getty]